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Annihilation is far from faultless. Yet it’s a novel of massive ambition
The memoir is less a life story than an investigation into the chain reaction of who (and how) the writer is
Narratives, counter-narratives, twists and frenzied bouts of cleaning up the timeline ensue
His career represented a sequence of missed opportunities for the world beyond his chosen genre to recognize his skill and quiet profundity
Conflicting ideals of old-school socialism and modern identity politics are fought out against a background of urban desolation worthy of Dickens
In The Sleepwalkers, Thomas insistently and cleverly shows that a novel can do what a series screenplay can’t or won’t
The writer was right. Until August isn’t worthy of him and should probably have been left in the archives
The painter in The Painter’s Daughters is Thomas Gainsborough, famous as a great portraitist and landscape artist
The Book of Love, her debut novel, brilliantly takes on fantasy tropes
